Re: fistfight between libc6-dev and joystick
Package: joystick
Version: 0.8.0-4
Joystick should place joystick.h in /usr/include/linux/modules instead of
the current location in /usr/include/linux, which conflicts with
libc6-dev.
On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, Branden Robinson wrote:
> severity 17382 important
> thanks
>
> We still have the situation where upgrading libc6-dev obliterates
> /usr/include/linux/joystick.h (belonging to the joystick package) without
> notice or warning. This is bad. It affects seemingly unrelated operations
> on the system like...oh, I don't know, building xfree86.
>
/usr/include/linux/ is supplied by the kernel headers, and does not
contain joystick.h. It is not clear to me why dpkg removes it, as
libc6-dev doesn't claim to own it, but, in any case, the correct location
for this file is /usr/include/linux/modules, which dpkg does not "clobber"
when installing libc6-dev.
> I'm not about to argue with the gurus over what packages have stomping
> rights in /usr/include/linux. I just know that everything that uses i386
> joysticks expects that header file there. Folks with clues and/or
> solutions should of course reassign this bug if necessary. Please, please
> fix it.
This will require that programs that "expect it there" will need to start
looking in the right place ;-)
>
> In exchange for upgrading this bug, the next release of xfree86 (the one I
> was trying to build when I got bit by this one) will fix *all* outstanding
> release-critical bugs against it -- including the one I had forwarded
> upstream. I got a patch from XFree86 last night.
>
As a workaround, can you move the joystick.h file by hand into the correct
place, and adjust your includes accordingly?
Thanks,
Dwarf
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